Victoria Panova

Biography

Dr. Victoria V. Panova is the director of the Oriental Studies Institute - School of Regional and International Affairs of the Far Eastern Federal University since March 2016. Prior to that she held the position of the Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), as well as Chief Strategy Planning Advisor for National Committee on BRICS Research, Russia. She holds a Ph.D. in history of international relations from MGIMO University. Her research focuses on the club governance (G8/G7, G20, BRICS), military-political and energy security, sustainable development as well as global governance in relation to Russian civil society.

The 8th annual BRICS summit in Goa showed that, despite any problems within member states and potential conflicts of interest between states, the organization cannot be dismissed as a full-fledged member of the international world order